I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.